The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-25
BUYING FERTILIZERS.
WHY 1t Paws to Purchase Them in the Sha
of Feed for Livestock.


of Feed for livestock.
Ordinarily the average farmer can
rot afford to buy feed, nor can he to any
great extent afford to purchase manure.
If the farm has been allowed to run
down through continued cropping with
out manuring or rotating so that the
field has run down below n profitable
margin, it may do to purchase com
mercial fertilizers in order to increase
the yield. The principal dependence
of the farmers must be upon barnyard
manure and rotation.
If by using commercial fertilizers
you can increase the yield of the crops
so that more stock can be kept,
ands thereby increase Your supply
of farm-made manure, there may be
many Western farmers who can make
the investment profitable. So feed. If
you have good supply Of corn fodder,
wheat or oat straw, timothy and clover
hay, you can buy bran and oil meal
generally and feed with profits. For
this reason, wheat or Oat straw IN them
selves are not a complete feed. In fact
they are of considerable less value of
either of the others. But by taking
clover wheat, or oat straw and bran
or meal, say in feed of twenty-five
pounds, YOU can give eleven each of
clover and wheat or oat straw and
three pounds Of bran, and you have
feed equal to or nearly so to twenty-five
pounds of good timothy hay-by com
bining you make the straw nearly
equal in value with hay-bCcause it sup
plies what the clover and bran lacks
and then makes up what is deficient in
the other This, of course, greatly re-
duces the cost of feeding and in many
cases considerably increases the sup
ply Profitable feeding implies having
good stock and then feeding so as to
secure the largest gain at the smallest
expense. 1t does not pay to feed stock
unless YOU can secure Il steady gain
from the start. But at the same time
the expenses should be made as light
as possible in order to increase the
profits; under such circumstances feed
can be purchased and fed out with
profit.
If properly managed securing a large
crop should enable us to feed an in
creased number Of stock. Then if fed
under good shelter, using all necessary
precautions to make and save all TIE
manure possible, we can secure alarger
amount of manure, and with good
management this ought to increase the
yield of the crops again.
In order to secure a start of this kind
YOU can purchase fertilizers and often
YOU can purchase feed with profit. If
your farm is ordinarily rich, and is not
cropped out by following one crop with
the same year after year until all the
plant food required for that variety OF
crops is nearly or quite exhausted. BY
adopting a plan of rotation and econ
omical feeding the fertility can be
gradually increased. More stock fed
and marketed and your profits viii be
increased accordingly.
J buy bran for milk cows the year
round because the larger flow of milk
and the increased value of the manure
is sufficient t. give me good profit
GOod clover hay and bran rs n staple
food is one of the best and cheapest
feeds for milk COWS can obtain, and
the quality of the manure is cOnsidera-
bly, increased by this combination.
do not mean TO imply that every farmer
will find these his cheapest feeds, only
give nv experience. Bran in nearly
all cases increases the value of the
manure and in Il rundown farm can
nearly always he used in combination
with other foods profitably. And it is
good economy when You are attempt
ing to build mp the farm to take advan-
tege of each combination as can be
done proiitably that viii enable you to
feed more stock and secure more ma
nure.-N T. Shepherd, IN les Nome
(Eo.) Logger